Tubular magazine-gun.



- PATENTED FEB. 3, 1903.-

T. 0. JOHNSON. TUBULAR MAGAZINEGUN.

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No. 719,807. 'PATENTED FEB.3,1903.

T.G.-.T0H1 IS0N. TUBULAR MAGAZINE GUN.

- v APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 15, 1902. no MODEL. a snanws-smm'wz:

No. 719,807; PATENTN PEB. s, 1903.

' T. 0. JOHNSON.

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I5 partly in section, showing how the cha'rger'is UNITED STATES Q PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS C.. JOHNSO N,-OF-NE WY HA ENQQO NE TI UT, ASSIGNOR TO WIN- KGHESTER REPEATIN'G ARMSICOQ'. F NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A COR- ORAT O TUBULAR M GAZINE-cl, U 'N-..

.srucrncmron forming part of LettersI fatent N6. 719,807, dated February a, 1903.

' "Application 518a September s, 19 a sem nal 128,435.,QIQ an.)

r all whom may coiwemr- I qBeit known that I, THQMAS ,O. :Jonfnsou, f NewHaven, in the county of New-Haven and Stai;e of Conn'ecticut,have' invented'a newand useful Improvement in Tubular Maga-l zine-Guns, and I do hereby declare the fol'-' lowing, when taken -in connectipn with the-accompanying drawings and-thefigures of ref-- erence marked thereomto be afulh'cl'ear, and

'.exact description'of the same, and which said drawings constitu'te'part of this specification, and-represent, in'" p Y a plan view of one form of charger which maybe used. with my improved gun;

Fig. 2-, a broken view,partly inelevation and applied to thecharg'ing opening-of the gun; Fig.3, .a broken view, in vertical longitudi-.-

nal section, of a gun containing my improved charging-opening; Fig. 4," a detached plan view of the outer'magazine-tnbe', showing the y l charging-opening" formed therein; Fig. ,5. a

side view thereofi Fig'. 6, a *view thereof in longitudinal section Fig. 7, a view intrans verse section on the line a b of Fig. 4 and also showing the butt-stock of the gun; Fig:

8,- a view on the line 011 of-Fig. t without the stock.

My invention relates to that class of tu'bui lar magazine-guns shown-and described in; v

United Stated Patent No. 681,481, granted August 27, 1901, to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company on my application, the

object being to provide simple, compact,- reliable, and convenient means for easily and expeditiously charging the magazines ofisuch gunswith cartridges.

With these ends in view myinvention consists in certain details of construction and combinationsof parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims. My improved gun is designed with partic- 'ular reference to being charged from a two tube gravity-charger comprising two tubes 2 and 3, corresponding to each other in length and diameter,located side by side and provided with a fiat spring 4, having two cartridge-retaining teeth 5 placed opposite each other at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the spring and entering the respective Y tubes through slots-6, fiormed therein. At its forward-Tend the said spring is formed with an au g'ular'operating-head 7, having two cor- .'responding but oppositely inclined operat- "ing-faces 8 .and. 8, by means" of.,which the Torfthe other for clearing one, tooth or the other'ifrom-the cartridges in 'one or the other "of. the tubes, -therear ends of which are spun i inwardly to adapt. them .to 'reta'i'n' the car- 'varied in form and details foff'construction and might even consist of a'siugl'e tube provided with an operating-Springtbdt the form shown will answer for we P$Q1Of describing my p oved gum forward end by a pin ll',-.Fig.-3,;with the tang virtually secured in place upon thefsaid tube 9 by means of. a n at 14, eutering'itsrear end and screwed upon the threaded rear. end of ing the constrifiztion-eflthis gun it'issuflicient to make reference'to' my priorpaten't, already referred to; The said charging-opening 10, whichis rounder and wider at its;forward tube 9 at an angle, ;which is substantially the angle "whichjthe charger will make with the longitudinal 'axis of thetube when appliedto the gun for charging it. The entrance of the opening into the ing 10. This surface continues along the sides under the rearwardly-extending portions of a charger-spring-operating surface 16, located at the forward and wider end of the charging-opening, the bearing-surface 16 bein gflanked on either side by stop-shoulders 17,

as clearly shown in Fig. 6. Thesurface 16 I .springissprung laterally or edgewise one way 6o tridges. M This. charger mayb considerably 'tridges front a charger of the type described,

v12 of. the gun, the butt stock .13 of'w-hich isthe tube 9. For further iufoi'mation'regardf than at its -rear'end',"rnay-be said to enter the of about twenty-degrees,

tube at such an angle results in formingia forwardly-inclined bearing and guiding surface '15 at the rear end of the charging-openof the charging opening and merges into .thecentral longitudinal'passage 9* of the; tube I '95 vall'ythro'u h it at a point about midway of its Y length. he saidtube 9,is-conii'ected at its may here say is not formed as an incident of producing the chargingopening 1o, but is specially produced for the particular purpose of operating the cartridge-retaining spring 4c of the chargexgwhile the shoulders 17, flanking the said surface 16, act as stops to prevent the spring from being unduly displaced laterally.

The outer tube 9, as shown, is provided with a shoulder 18, formed integral with the tube and extending throughout the length of the opening and its adjacent inclined surfaces and 16. Of course the entire tube might be made to correspondto the externaldiameter of the shoulder, or the shoulder might be produced by brazing a short sleeve upon the tube. V V

The butt-stock 13 is formed in its right-hand side with a clearance-opening 19, corresponding to the charging'opening 10 and having inclined walls, its rear end wall being inclined at about an angle of twenty degrees, while the wall at its forward end and the forward ends of its side walls are steeper in pitch.

To charge the magazine with the charger of the type shown inFigs. l and 2, the charger is first itself charged by crowding cartridges head foremost into it and past the teeth 5 of its spring at, which yields laterally or edgewise to permit the cartridges to pass, the teeth 5 having their forward edges curved or beveled for the purpose. When the charger has been charged, one or the other of its two tubes is introduced through the opening 19 in the stock and shoved forward over the bearing-surface 15 and then inwardly through the chargiug-openin; 10 into the outer magazine-tube 9, as shown in Fig. Before the tube reaches the limit of its forward inovemeet the spring 4; of the charger engages one or the other of its operating-surfaces 8 and 8,

according to the tube tobe discharged, with the spring-operating surface 16 at the forward end of the opening 10, whereby the spring is deflected edgewise one way or the other, as the case may be, for clearing one of the teeth 5 on the spring from the cartridges in the tube so entered into the gun. As soon eraser as the spring has been sprung as describedthe cart-ridges gravitate past it and enter the tube. If desired, the cartridges maybe very readily fed onev by one into the tube 9 through the opening 10 by hand. I thus dispense with the use of the escutcheon described in my prior patent referred to.

It is apparent that in carrying out my invention some changes may be made from the construction shown and described, and I would therefore have it understood thatI do not limit myself thereto, but hold myself at liberty to make such departures therefrom as v fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I clainras new, and desire'to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. In a tubular magazine-gun, a magazinetube formed with a lateral charging-opening having a forwardly-inclined surface at its rear end, and a spring-operating surface at its forward end.

2. in a tubular magazine-gun, a magazinetube formed with a lateral charging-opening havingla forwardly-inclined surface at its rear end, and a spring-operating surface at its forward end, the inclined surface at its rear end extending inwardly under the said spring-operating surface at its forward end.

3. in a tubular magazine-firearm, a maga- Zinetube formed with an oval charging-open.- ing entering it laterally and having an inwardly-inclined surface located at its rear end and extending forwardly and inwardly therefrom, and a spring-operating surface lo cated at its forward end and extending rear-v wardly therefrom and flanked by stop-shoulders.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence-of two subscrib-- ing witnesses.

THOMAS C. JOHNSON.

\Vitnesses: V

FREDERIC C. EARLE, CLARA L. WEED. 

